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Jed Schmidt
May 07, 2014
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These slides are from the presentation I gave at Front Trends 2014, in Warsaw, Poland.
Jed Schmidt
May 07, 2014
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API Have A Dream
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Hi Jed, ! We are Paweł Czerski & Damian Wielgosik,
and we organize Front-Trends, one of Europe’s best conferences where front-end lovers, developers, designers and entrepreneurs come together in Warsaw, Poland for 3 amazing days.
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API Have A Dream
Libraries & Frameworks & Build Tools & Compilers
1. The present. 2. The future? 3. One weird trick.
1. The present.
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Libraries
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1. The present.
2. The future?
Libraries & Frameworks & Build Tools & Compilers
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Libraries & Frameworks & Build Tools & Compilers
A sufficiently advanced build tool is indistinguishable from a compiler.
With libraries, you call them.
With frameworks, they call you.
Compilers make the phone.
We can compile our styles.
We can compile our code.
Can we compile our apps?
What if jQuery were a compiler?
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asm.js
asm.js targets a performant subset of JS.
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asm.dom should target a performant subset of the DOM.
Virtual DOM
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dependencies
new languages
new APIs
control flow
runtime
Let's use virtual DOMs as our asm.dom
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cooking → human productivity compiling → developer productivity
Let's start cooking.
Thank you.
Join us tomorrow at 16:30 to talk about the future
of frameworks.